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Perspective

Dec. 22, 2010

The Systemic Mistreatment of Immigrants With Mental Disabilities

Has the Obama administration turned its back on earlier promises to protect the most vulnerable immigrants? By Ahilan Arulanantham of the ACLU.


By Ahilan Arulanantham


Two years ago the Obama administration vowed to fix our nation's broken immigration detention system to ensure vulnerable immigrant populations were not locked up and forgotten.


Obama's Justice Department had an opportunity to make good on that promise earlier this year when a coalition of groups including the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell asked a federal cou...

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